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The arabian horse in 3-D. SBS plus one to spare effort for others

Started Mar 17, 2019 | Discussions thread
Gerry Siegel
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Re: Single camera stereo ( where subject moves or camera slides)

I have several Realists myself. Bought the first one in 1956, Yep, I am a chirpy 84. I kind of gave up on shooting film when Kodachrome stopped processing. But I have a sizeable collection of mounted slides. I use a MAC desktop. And I guess if I had stayed with PCs I would fool around with the ubiquitous SPM. Yes, yes, I know I can dual boot with Windows. Feh! Tried it and hated it...( I did try). Costa has suggested a program which though not as versatile maybe as Stereo Photo Maker will allow me to digitize and align my pairs for both parallel and cross.......(An aside. For a while last year, one of Hillary Hess;s friends from the NSA processed my scans so I could post them on her FB page " Vintage Stereo." At the moment, i would need a motivation to buy a laptop just for this one program SPM, but I have toyed with the idea......so much to learn even about my cameras and their menus...mission creep at 84. No, don't tell me it keeps me young and such pious stuff...Though if someone volunteers to take my scans by e m ail and return them after SPMing I can of course finish the tweaking as I did on Hillary's web page...)

Now, If the next chapter of Avatar comes out in 3-D and LG makes a 3-D set I will this time grab one. I am not moved to buy a projector which is the current only way for sensible group viewing...Now as to glass free viewing, I predict this is not in the cards this decade. Just do not see it.....

Manfrotto makes a low cost slide bar which is small. The old model from Novoflex was nice and a used Novoflex packs light. But then, a serious stereographer has to be motivated. Tripod anyone? Flash anyone? See what I mean.... The photo shows theFrankencopy rig aka jury rigged set up I use now to  scan the mounted slides frame by frame. If one has the goodies lying around, it is slow for sure, but yields a very sharp pair of chrome copies.  Read large JPEG files!Forces one to super winnow down the ones worth keeping as digital. A rigged slide holder backlit with an LED light color adjustable and rheostated plus two slide bars, one for small adjustment for focus and one for sliding across the two images. And my wonderful Olympus macro lens. And the GX 8 camera with the nice LCD. One can make color corrections right on screen by adjusting the color temp via the menu...eyeball the focus or use focus aids. Mainly I have to say IT WORKS. And probably faster than assembling an IKEA bedroom set

Copy set up, set up and take down... Panasonic camera w. Olympus 60 mm macro ...Novoflex slide rail for focus. and a bunch of flat boars for alignment by seaman's eye...

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